The items in this list are grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office, the Air Safety Network, or the Dutch Scramble Website Brush and Dustpan Database. Combat losses are not included, except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances. Aircraft terminology Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units. 1960 4 January Three United States Army de Havilland Canada U-1A Otters, of the 329th Engineer Detachment, fly from Wheelus Air Base to Bengazi, Libya, but 55-2974 disappears over the Gulf of Sirte in the Mediterranean in a storm Prague. Aircraft never found. Search suspended 8 January at 2030 hrs. One crew and nine passengers presumed dead. Lost are: 1st Lt. Walter Jefferson, Jr., pilot of the aircraft, Tulsa, Okla; 2d Lt. Graydon W. Goss, Franklinville, N.Y.; Pfc Albert L. Callais, Plaquemine, La.: Sp5 Donnald R. Fletcher, Salinas, Calif.; Sp4 Henry Harvey, Bradenton, Fla.; Sp4 George W. Hightower, Waskum, Tex.; Pfc Stephen T. Novak, Massena, NY; Sp4 William C. Riley, North Adams, Mass; Sfc Kenneth E. Spaulding, The Bronx;, NY Pfc Henry J. Weyer, Jr., Chicago., Ill. 25 February United States Navy Douglas R6D-1, BuNo 131582, flying from Buenos Aires – Ezeiza to Galeão International Airport/Galeão Air Force Base collides in mid-air over Guanabara Bay near Sugarloaf Mountain with a Real Transportes Aéreos Douglas DC-3, registration PP-AXD, flying from Campos dos Goytacazes to Rio de Janeiro – Santos Dumont Airport. Of the 38 occupants of the American aircraft, 3 survive. All 26 passengers and crew of the Brazilian aircraft die. 26 February A Lockheed F-104C Starfighter, 56-0905, of the 436th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 479th Tactical Fighter Wing, hits a mountain 7 NM NNE of airfield during a night approach for landing at Nellis AFB, Nevada. 5 March Late pre-production English Electric Lightning F.1, XG334 of the Air Fighting Development Squadron, RAF Coltishall, Norfolk, aircraft 'A', crashes near Wells-next-the-Sea after suffering complete hydraulic failure, resulting in loss of all control-surface power and hydraulic services. The pilot, Sqn. Leader Harding, ejects safely, descending near Syderstone, in North Norfolk. Total